Slow Slow Green Time

2026.11.04-2026.11.28

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"What we need now may not be what will be needed in the future."

Encountering the work of Yasuhito Kawasaki, it is difficult not to be drawn first to its gentleness—those tender, faintly childlike forms that seem to offer comfort before they ask anything of us. Looking back at his earlier creations, whether the "self-portrait" series carved in fibreglass or ceramic, one finds extensions of the artist's subconscious and his childhood memories—through those innocent, even charmingly naive faces of children, he explored a parallel world where reality and fantasy intertwine.

In recent years, Kawasaki's practice has undergone a quiet but profound shift.

The starting point of these latest works lies in the phenomenon of "bear sightings" that dominated Japanese news in late 2025. Where the public saw only the alarm of wild animals entering human settlements, Kawasaki saw a deeper causality: the bears did not come down from the mountains without reason—food sources there had been dwindling for years. And the cause of that lies with an earlier generation, who planted too many trees of a single species for construction, forgetting the forest's original ecological balance.

From this observation, his vision has expanded from "the inner landscape of the individual" to "the relationship between humanity and nature." He begins to ask whether, in a society of relentless speed, we have grown accustomed to seeing only what lies immediately before us—forgetting to imagine a more distant future, a relationship that extends far beyond our own lifetimes.

In this exhibition, visitors will encounter not only the artist's delicate paintings and ceramic sculptures, but also a series of newly created miniature ceramic works—intricate micro-scenes in which humans and animals coexist. Scattered throughout the gallery, these small, story-laden details shrink a vast natural proposition into a tender whisper held in the palm, waiting to be discovered one by one.

Welcome to Slow Slow Green Time, Yasuhito Kawasaki's solo exhibition. It is a gentle invitation across time: behind those endearing forms, the artist asks us to pause, and to look again—with ease, and with a longer view—at the way we live with this world.